page_title: Lobules of liver
hierarchical_section_title: Lobules of liver
caption_attribution_description: Illustration from Anatomy &amp; Physiology, Connexions Web site. http://cnx.org/content/col11496/1.6/, Jun 19, 2013.
context_page_description: The lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue, consisting of a portal triad, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein.
  Lobules are different from the lobes of the liver: they are the smaller divisions of the lobes. The two-dimensional microarchitecture of the liver can be viewed from different perspectives:
  The term "hepatic lobule", without qualification, typically refers to the classical lobule.
context_section_description: The lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic (histological) scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue, consisting of a portal triad, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein.
  Lobules are different from the lobes of the liver: they are the smaller divisions of the lobes. The two-dimensional microarchitecture of the liver can be viewed from different perspectives:
  The term "hepatic lobule", without qualification, typically refers to the classical lobule.
caption: The structure of the liver’s functional units or lobules. Blood enters the lobules through branches of the portal vein and hepatic artery proper, then flows through sinusoids.
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